What's On @ ANU

EXHIBITION

Recovering Lives
Friday, 8 August 2008 - Saturday, 6 September 2008
School of Art Gallery

The exhibition features the work of six Australian and international artists and artist groups exploring the idea of 'recovering lives' and issues of history, humanity and contemporary violence through a variety of media from installation to photography. Join us for the opening by Dr Debjani Ganguly, Head of the Humanities Research Centre, Research School of Humanities, at 5.30 pm, Thursday 7 August 2008.

	EXHIBITION
	The Country Show Tuesday, 12 August 2008 - Saturday, 23 August 2008 ANU School of Art Foyer Gallery The Australian icon of the Country Show has a well-loved place in the hearts of many people. A group of artists celebrate the quirky, the humble and the endearing aspects of this cultural institution. more»

	CONFERENCE
	Rethinking Late Style Thursday, 21 August 2008 - Saturday, 23 August 2008 Old Canberra House Conference Room This conference aims to bring together scholars in the fields of art, music, literature, film and architecture to debate the subject of 'late style' and attempt to work through the mythology to find a shared critical language and some basic premises for future work. more»

SEMINAR

Roundtable Discussion at Parliament House
Friday, 22 August 2008 at 9:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Parliament House, Canberra

Does size matter? As part of the 20th anniversary celebrations at Parliament House a special roundtable featuring the design architect of Parliament House, Romaldo Giurgola, will discuss the impact of building shape on the business conducted in it. You can join the discussion, which is being recorded for posterity, in Parliament House on 22 August from 9-12:30pm.

EXHIBITION

The John Curtin School of Medical Research Open Day
Friday, 22 August 2008 at 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
The John Curtin School of Medical Research, Building 131, Garran Road

The John Curtin School of Medical Research Open Day gives you the opportunity to talk to scientists in their working laboratories. Researchers in fields as diverse as asthma, diabetes, HIV and cancer will be there to demonstrate their work and answer your questions.

SEMINAR

The Visibility of Government on the Web: Insights from a Large-Scale Crawl
Friday, 22 August 2008 at 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Seminar Room A, HC Coombs Building (9), Fellows Road

In this paper, an approach for adaptively sampling Web data is introduced and implemented using a 2005 large-scale crawl of the .au domain. A sample of websites of organisations advocating on behalf of various groups in society (ethnic minorities, gays and lesbians, people with disabilities) is drawn adaptively using information on the presence of particular keywords and the link structure between websites. Various estimators of the Web presence of these groups (e.g. total number of sites, number of inlinks to and from the rest of the Web, connection to government) are then constructed.